Panel – Green infrastructure
Panel participants:
John Jacob, PhD, Texas Sea Grant
Karen Walz, FAICP, Program Manager, Vision North Texas
Dean Almy, PhD, UT-Austin School of Architecture
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Elected Officials Panel: Preparing Texas for High Speed Rail
We are excited to announce the topic of the elected officials panel on Friday afternoon will be “Preparing Texas for High Speed Rail.” We are waiting on several confirmations for officials from San Antonio, Austin, and in between, but are very pleased that Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, Texas Representative Carol Alvarado, Fort Worth City Councilmember Jungus Jordan, College Station Mayor Ben White, and Travis County Commissioner Sarah Eckhardt will participate in this panel.
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Robin Rather
Robin Rather specializes in market research and strategy for a range of business, non-profit, and governmental clients and is a recognized advocate for sustainability and related policy issues. Her company, Collective Strength, is based in Austin.
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Panel – Energy: Can we use less? Can we get more?
Panel participants:
Moderator: Bob Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association
Amy Myers Jaffe, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Ray Orbach, Ph.D., UT-Austin Energy Institute
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Mike Critelli
Mike Critelli, former CEO and Executive Chairman of Pitney Bowes, will present conference co-host America 2050 and its initiatives with several other America 2050 representatives.
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Panel – Transportation: What is emerging?
Panel participants:
Overview and moderator: David Goldberg, Communications Director, Transportation for America and Smart Growth America
Frank Wilson, CEO, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Houston
Alan Clark, MPO Director, Houston-Galveston Area Council
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Panel – Regional equity
Panel participants:
Overview and moderator: Dwayne Marsh, MA, Senior Director for Policy Engagement, Policy Link
Stephen Klineberg, Ph.D., Rice University Department of Sociology
Amanda Timm, MPAff, Executive Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation-Houston
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Panel – Visioning in the Triangle
Panel participants:
Moderator: Jeff Taebel, FAICP, Community and Environmental Planning Director, Houston-Galveston Area Council
Sally Campbell, Executive Director, Envision Central Texas
Karen Walz, FAICP, Project Manager, Vision North Texas
Emily Braswell, Executive Director, Blueprint Houston
Patrick Howard, AICP, Assistant Director, Comprehensive Planning Division, City of San Antonio
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Panel – Food and water: Are we secure?
Panel participants:
Moderator: John Jacob, PhD, Texas Sea Grant
Bruce McCarl, PhD, Regents Professor and Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Bob Randall, PhD, former Executive Director, Urban Harvest
Dan Hardin, PhD, Director, Water Resources Planning & Information Division, Texas Water Development Board
Jim Holway, PhD, Joint Venture Program Director, Sonoran Institute and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
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Christopher Leinberger
Christopher Leinberger, a Visiting Fellow of The Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, is an expert in downtown development and design strategy. As a speaker at the Megaregions + MetroProsperity conference, Leinberger will address the choice we have as residents to opt for urbanism. Leinberger’s expertise on the downtown urban and suburban movement will allow the conference attendees to consider the advantages of focusing on the Texas Triangle’s emerging market for walkable urbanism.
To learn more about Christopher Leinberger and the Metropolitan Policy Program’s initiatives, please visit Leinberger’s Brookings Institution website and the Metropolitan Policy Program website.
Mark Pisano
As a senior fellow at the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development and the Co-Chair and West Coast Director of Megaregions + MetroProsperity conference co-host America 2050, Mark Pisano has quite a bit of planning experience which he has used in his position in both the West Coast area and around the nation. Pisano’s expertise and leadership has guided America 2050 in its conference tour, which will end with a focus on the Texas Triangle megaregion. Pisano, along with several other America 2050 representatives, will introduce America 2050’s intitatives and goals for the conference and the country as a whole.
To learn more about Mark Pisano and America 2050’s initatives, please visit Pisano’s USC website and the America 2050 website.
Michael Neuman
Dr. Michael Neuman, Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Texas A&M Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, will speak at the Megaregions + MetroProsperity conference in September. Neuman and his Texas A&M students’ work in a variety of urban planning and sustainable design fields have won various distinctions throughout his career. In addition, Neuman founded the Michael Neuman Consultancy, which advises in the various aspects and categories of planning. As the Chair of the Sustinable Urbanism Program at Texas A&M and a speaker at the Megaregions + MetroProsperity conference, Neuman will address the research Texas A&M has done on creating a framework for future growth in the Texas Urban Triangle.
To learn more about Dr. Neuman and his work, please visit his Texas A&M website.
Mark Anielski
Mark Anielski is an ecological economist and President and CEO of Anielski Management Inc. (AMI), a consulting firm specializing in the measurement of community well-being and sustainability. AMI provides communities, businesses, and governments with sustainable economic assessments of different scenarios and situations. In his work, Anielski has advised the Chinese government on how to develop and adopt a “green GDP accounting” system as a means of measuring sustainable development in China. In addition to his consulting practice, Anielski teaches Sustainable Economics at the new Bainbridge Graduate Institute (Washington), the first sustainability MBA program in US.
At the Megaregions + MetroProsperity conference, Anielski will address the economic situation of the Texas Triangle megaregion and assess the most sustainable and economically sound options for the megaregion. This economic assessment will be crucial in the following conference discussions, as finding a sustainable path to wealth for the region is one of the top concerns of the conference.
To learn more about Mark Anielski and his work, please visit the Anielski Management website and his webpage for the International Institute for Sustainable Development, a policy research institute that promotes sustainable development.
Petra Todorovich
As the Director of America 2050, a Regional Plan Association initiative and co-host of the Megaregions + MetroProsperity conference, Petra Todorovich has addressed the infrastructure and growth issues of the eleven American megaregions and will end the megaregions tour with the Texas Triangle megaregion. Along with several other America 2050 representatives, Todorovich will introduce the America 2050 national initiatives and hopes for the results of the conference.
To learn more about Petra Todorovich and America 2050 initiatives, please visit Todorovich’s RPA website.
Robert Yaro
Regional Plan Association President Robert Yaro will be a speaker and panel moderator at the Megaregions + MetroProsperity conference. Through RPA, a Manhattan-based agency, Yaro has worked with many New York urban planning and sustainability initiatives in order to improve quality of life. RPA has also worked to encourage research and education initiatives, including the America 2050 initiative that is co-hosting the conference. Yaro, in company with several other America 2050 representatives, will introduce America 2050’s Megaregions initiative and address its critical importance to the future success of the Texas Megaregion.
To learn more about Robert Yaro and the Regional Plan Association’s initiatives, please visit Yaro’s RPA website.
David Crossley
David Crossley, President and founder of conference co-host Houston Tomorrow, has helped Houston Tomorrow, formerly the Gulf Coast Institute, lead the Smart Growth Initiative in the Houston region since 1998. Crossley serves on the board of Smart Growth America, the steering committee of America 2050, and is associate director of the Houston Chapter of the American Planning Association. Crossley will welcome Megaregions + MetroProsperity attendees at the beginning of each day of the conference, introducing the goals of the conference and the other speakers scheduled for the day. Additionally, Crossley will speak about the process and necessity of creating a sustainable region over the conference’s Friday lunch hour.
To learn more about David Crossley and his work with Houston Tomorrow, please visit the Houston Tomorrow website.
Robert Lang
Dr. Robert Lang is Co-Director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech in Alexandria, Virginia, and an associate professor of urban affairs and planning in Virginia Tech’s School of Planning and International Affairs. In 2007, Lang was named a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he was director of urban and metropolitan research at the Fannie Mae Foundation. Lang’s research has been featured in USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and U.S. News & World Report, and reported on by NPR, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, and ABC News. He is the author of Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis (Brookings Institution Press, 2003) and Boomburbs: The Rise of America’s Accidental Cities (Brookings Institution Press, 2007).
To learn more about Dr. Lang and his work, see his webpages at the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech and the Brookings Institution.
Frederick Steiner
As Dean of the University of Texas School of Architecture, Frederick Steiner has had a great variety of experience and education in regional and city planning, architecture, and environmental studies. Among the numerous civic and academic endeavors Dean Steiner has been a part of and worked with, he chairs the board of Envision Central Texas, (a Megaregions+MetroProsperity conference partner) and was responsible for the establishment of the UT School of Architecture research facility called the Center for Sustainable Development, another conference partner. Steiner will speak at the Megaregions+MetroProsperity conference, analyzing the Texas Triangle Megaregion based on the work he and others at UT have done to understand the megaregion’s issues. He is a also a member of the America 2050 steering committee.
To learn more about Dean Steiner and his work, please visit his UT School of Architecture website.
Confirmed Speakers to Date
Mark Anielski, President and CEO, Anielski Management Inc
Emily Braswell, Executive Director, Blueprint Houston
Sally Campbell, Executive Director, Envision Central Texas
Alan Clark, MPO Director, Manager of Transportation and Air Quality Programs, Houston-Galveston Area Council
David Crossley, President, Houston Tomorrow
Dan Bellow, Chairman, Greater Houston Partnership
David Goldberg, Communications Director, Transportation for America
Dan Hardin, PhD, Director, Water Resources Planning Division, Texas Water Development Board
Bill Hobby, former Lieutenant Governor of Texas
Jim Holway, PhD, Joint Venture Program Director, Sonoran Institute
Patrick Howard, Assistant Director, City of San Antonio Planning & Development Services Department
John Jacob, PhD, Coastal Community Development Specialist, Texas Sea Grant
Amy Myers Jaffe, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies, James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Associate Director, Rice Energy Program
Stephen Klineberg, PhD, Rice University Department of Sociology
Robert Lang, PhD, Co-Director, Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Christopher Leinberger, Visiting Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Dwayne Marsh, MA, Senior Director for Policy Engagement, PolicyLink
Bruce McCarl, PhD, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M
Michael Neuman, PhD, Chair, Sustainable Urbanism Program, Texas A&M
Ray Orbach, PhD, Director, Energy Institute at the University of Texas-Austin
Mark Pisano, Co-Chair and West Coast Director, America 2050
Bob Randall, PhD, Former Executive Director, Urban Harvest
Robin Rather, CEO, Collective Strength
Frederick Steiner, PhD, Dean, College of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
Jeff Taebel, Director of Community and Environmental Planning, Houston-Galveston Area Council
Amanda Timm, MPAff, Executive Director, Local Initiatives Support Corporation – Houston
Petra Todorovich, Director, America 2050
Karen Walz, Project Manager, Vision North Texas
Frank Wilson, President & CEO, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County
Robert Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association
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